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growth
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jobs
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Connecting
people
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Transport
Infographics
Generating
growth
Transport is
the lifeblood
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014, Eurostat
There are over
336 000
road passenger transport companies
and around
590 000
road freight transport companies
enabling people to travel and exchange
goods in the EU
EU countries (Germany, Netherlands,
Belgium, United Kingdom, Sweden and
Luxembourg) occupy
6 of the top 10 spots
in a ranking of how well countries organise
the movement of goods worldwide.
Reference: World Bank Logistics Performance Index 2014
TOP
Aviation contributes about
€
88 bn
to the GDP
of the EU,
more than twice the GDP of Slovenia.
Source: Eurostat, structural business statistics, 2011 data
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014, Eurostat COMEXT 2012 data
Sea transport ships
almost
75 %
of the EU’s external
trade (by volume).
In comparison, road transports 6.2 %, rail transports 3.7 % and air transports 0.6 %.
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THER
O
THER
Source: Eurostat, maritime statistics / World Shipping Council, top 50 World Container Ports, 2012
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15
More than
2 400
commercial seaports
operate along some
70 000 Km of EU coasts.
Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp
rank among the world’s top 15 container ports
(the only ports outside of Asia).
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014, Union International des Chemins de fer
Between 1985 and 2013,
the EU increased the capacity
of its high-speed rail network
10 times (from 643 km to 7 343 km).
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
To meet future demand, the EU continues to invest in transport infrastructures:
between 2007 and 2013
€ 7.21 billion was invested in 327 projects –
around
€ 14.50 for every person in the EU!
Source: TEN-T Core Network
=
€
7.21 billion
€
14.5/
Creating
jobs
Transport provides work
In Europe,
1 out of 20 jobs
is in the transport sector.
Around
11.2 M Europeans work
in transport service-related jobs:
that is almost the population of
Greece!
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014, based on Eurostat National Accounts
11.2
M
More than half of transport service
employees work in
land transport
(road, rail and pipelines).
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014, based on Eurostat National Accounts
Sea and Inland
Waterway transport
2 %
Air transport
4 %
Warehousing,
supporting
transport activities
24 %
road, rail
and pipelines
Postal and
courier activities
15 %
55 %
Source: Eurostat, Labour Force Survey, 2013
Only
22 %
of transport workers
are
women!
Share by gender and transport mode:
Air transport Water transport
War
ehou
sing a
nd support activities for tra
nsp
ort ation
Posta
l and courier activ
ities
86 %
38 %
62 %
20.5 %
79.5 %
25 %
75 %
39.5 %
60.5 %
14 %
Land
transport (railways and roa
Source: Eurostat Structural Business Statistics / Observatory of employment in public transport - April 2011
Urban and suburban passenger transport
employs around
820 000 people,
representing around 8 % of the overall
transport industry work force.
Public transport is one of the largest employers at local level,
such as in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels and Dublin.
Over
all tra
nsport industry w
ork forc e
8 %
Innovating
to compete
Europe is a leader in
30 % 25 % 20 %
24.8 %
25.3 %
13.2 %
7.6 %
13.2 %
15 % 10 % 5 % 0 %In the EU, about
one fourth of the total R&D
expenditure* is transport related.
R&D expenditure in transport
compared to total national
expenditure:
Share of total R&D expenditure by sector:
Others
19.18 %
Fixed line telecommunications
2.69 %
Software &
computer services
3.71 %
Banks
4.07 %
Industrial engineering
4.86 %
Pharmaceuticals
& biotechnology
15.01 %
Technology hardware
& equipment
11.11 %
Aerospace & defence
5.75 %
Electronic & electrical
equipment
5.08 %
Chemicals
4.95 %
23.58 %
TRANSPORTSource: EU industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, 2012
* Calculated on the top 1 000 Companies with their headquarters in the EU, of which 55 are transport related (Automobile and parts, Industrial transportation)
Source: EU industrial R&D scoreboard, 2012
*Calculated on the best 1 500 world corporates, of which 111 are transport-related (Automobile and parts, Industrial transportation), and 37 in the EU
EU
36.8 %
US
28.1 %
Others
11.8 %
JP
23.3 %
How inventive are we?
25 768 transport-related patents have been registered in the EU
between 1990 and 2011, this is
36.8 % of the transport related
patents worldwide.
Share of transport-related patents worldwide:
2007
-10 %
GHG emissions
Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), June 2014- * including international maritime bunkers
Transport GHG emissions*
decreased by about
10 % between
2007 and 2012.
GHG emissions
by mode of transport:
ROAD:
71.9 %
OTHER:
0.8 %
AVIATION:
12.8 %
RAILWAYS:
0.6 %
WATERBORNE:
13.9 %
European transport companies* are leading
innovators! In 2011 they invested
€ 35 bn in
industrial R&D, equal to 44 % of the world
share*, well ahead of Japanese and American
companies.
44 %
16 %
34 %
2 %
2 %
Source: EU industrial R&D scoreboard, 2012 - *Calculated on the best 1 500 world corporates,
Companies in
71 %
Companies in
17 %
Companies in
7 %
Source: EU industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, 2012 - Calculated on the top 1 000 Companies with their headquarters in the EU,
of which 55 are transport related (Automotive and parts, Industrial transportation)
Automotive Corporate R&D is dominated
by just a few companies in the EU, with
96% of the investments concentrated
in the top 3 Member States.
Investing and expanding:
Europe is a world
leader in transport
Germany, France and Spain are among
the
10 top car producers in the world,
with over
9.5 M cars produced in 2011.
Source: The Economist Pocket World in Figures – 2014 Edition
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9.5M
ES
DE
FR
Connecting
people
Transport improves the
Source: Eurostat, national accounts, 2012 data / EU Transport in Figures 2014
In 2012, private households in the EU-28 spent
€ 967 bn
in transport related activities, divided as following:
On average this is
13 % of a household
income, about the same
as we spend on food and
non-alcoholic drinks but
far more than we set
aside for education (1 %).
Food and non-alcoholic drinks 13 % Transport 13 % Education 1 % Other 73 %
54.5 %
25.8 %
19.6 %
USE OF VEHICLES
BUY VEHICLES
TICKETS
Source: Eurostat aviation statistics, ICAO / EU Reference scenario 2013.
28 %
In 2012, over
827 million
passengers used
EU airports, roughly
28 % of all passengers worldwide.
Under current
trends and policies,
air passenger
transport is expected
to increase by about
70 % from 2010
to 2030.
20100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70%
2015 2020 2025 2030
The cost of road congestion in Europe
is estimated to over
€ 110 bn a year,
equivalent to 1 % of EU GDP,
or around € 220 for each EU citizen!
Source: Joint Research Centre report, “measuring road congestion”, 2012
1% of EU GDP
In 2012, Europeans travelled an average
of
12 600 km per person within the EU,
using all forms of motorised transport.
This is about
2 return trips
from Lisbon
to Warsaw.
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014
x2
12 600 Km
LISBON
Source: EU road traffic accident data base, 2013
For every
person killed on the roads,
another estimated 10-12 suffer serious injuries.
In the past 10 years road fatalities decreased by
43 %,
and the number of reported serious injuries by only
36 %.
0 %
10 %
20 %
30 %
40 %
50 %
60 %
70 %
80 %
90 %
100 %
2002
2013
-43 %
-36 %
Cars are still the dominant
means of transportation
in Europe, but the pattern
is changing …
2012 Passenger transport in %,
based on passenger-kilometres:
0.6 % 9 %
1.5 % 6.5 %
8.2 % 2 % 72.2 %
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014 / DG MOVE estimates on EU Transport in Figures 2013 data
The average European travelled
almost
9 300 km by car in 2011
that is about
130 km less
than in 2004!
Europeans use the tram or metro
five times more than Americans.
They also use
10 times more
the train for travelling.
Source: EU Transport in Figures 2014